Secret HedgeTV Staff Meeting

Keep up to Date with GR8GIFT4U

An Occasional Blog Summary, freebies and gift ideas to keep the hens amused !

note: your e-mail address is not given away or sold and you can unsubscribe anytime.

How picking the right perfume can change your life

How picking the right perfume can change your life
by Sarah Maple

I've just got back from a week near Spain's southern Costa Blanca coast. Well just inland actually, hiring a car and sight seeing and taking in the beautiful valleys of almond and orange groves. The sights were one thing and the smells were entirely another.

It got me thinking more about perfumes and fragrances. Because I've never actually bought perfume or fragrance ever, at all, actually. Don't get me wrong I use olive soap and essential oil shampoo and lots of things that might contain some kind of fragrance.

But I've never gone and bought a bottle of actual pure perfume, either for men or women. I thought the best place to find out about perfumes would be either the library or the web. After a half-second mathematical configuration comparing the two choices of information sources over time and convenience I turned on the laptop.

What struck me immediately was the range of references used to describe fragrances: galbanum, hyacinth, bergamot, jasmine, ylang-ylang, cassis, vetiver, benzoin, vanilla and sandal wood – just some of the references to botanicals and extracts that can apply to just one perfume! The notes too can be separated into top, middle and bottom notes.

The top notes of a perfume last for about 20 minutes, then the middle notes of a perfume or fragrance last about 3 to 4 hours, while the bottom notes of a perfume or fragrance can last longer. You know, I just thought that perfumes and fragrances just sort of smelt nice, and that was it. Interestingly, and perhaps it was the way people describe the smells of perfume, but you actually get really into the idea of perfume and really want to go out and buy perfume online after reading about them!

It's definitely a brilliant combination of art and science that goes into manufacturing perfumes and fragrances. I was puzzled about why some perfumes are called parfum, or scent. Actually that's the more expensive versions, which are very pure forms of the fragrance, giving basis to the statement that 'less is more.' Prices can vary wildly, and I guess for a well-known or cherished brand you are going to pay more, though there are some great deals if you can compare prices for fragrance online.

Whether you are a girl or boy, perfumes online are easy to find, though the web sites of the brands can be a little too fiddly or pretentious without actually helping you find the information you really need such as price.

By comparing prices and brands I found lots of information on a range of perfumes including Estee Lauder, Hugo Boss, Givenchy and Aramis. In my first attempts to find out more about buying perfume online I would advise though, that price isn't everything and it's best to get acquainted with the odours and sparkling notes described about perfumes, because comparing the scents of perfumes and fragrances online requires imagination and dedication!

Thankfully my newly found passion for perfume will more than provide for that.

About the Author

Sarah Maple uses Shopping.com to compare perfume prices and find new and exciting products

some free black and red love hearts backgrounds

These love heartbackgrounds images are free to take, resize, crop use on cafepress stickers etc. - click on image to get full size - then rightclick on image and save to your computer (don't link directly to them on-line!) - you can then use them on social networking profiles, websites or anywhere else you need love hearts!


got some more another day.

Video Make-up Tutorials With Panacea81

Laura (panacea81 on youtube) does tutorials on youtube showing how to apply different types of eye cosmetics in the style of movie stars,celebrities, evening out and daywear :

Get this widget!

Visit the Widget Gallery

4 eBooks about getting back your man and / or keeping him!

1) "The Woman Men Adore...and Never Want to Leave"



2) "How Do I Get Him Back,"



3) "The Man Of Your Dreams."


4) "What Husbands Can't Resist"

2 spooky products to 'ween' you into halloween x_X

1.Little Kid Halloween Crafts. Discover Quick And Easy Halloween Crafts Guaranteed To Spark Spooktacular Fun!

2. Easy Pumpkin Painting. A Must For Halloween, This Step-By-Step Guide Offers Instruction And Photos For Painting Cute, Whimsical Faces On Pumpkins.

Pure Beauty - non fiction

Pure Beauty With a low rate of immigration and a high rate of interracial marriage, Japanese Americans today compose the Asian ethnic group with the largest proportion of mixed-race members. Within Japanese American communities, increased participation by mixed-race members, along with concerns about overassimilation, has led to a search for cultural authenticity, giving new answers to the question, Who is Japanese American? In Pure Beauty, Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain tackles this question by studying a cultural institution: Japanese American community beauty pageants in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Honolulu. King-O’Riain employs rich ethnographic fieldwork to discover how these pageants seek to maintain racial and ethnic purity amid shifting notions of cultural identity. She uses revealing in-depth interviews with candidates, queens, and community members, her experiences as a pageant committee member, and archival research—including Japanese and English newspapers, museum collections, private photo albums, and mementos—to establish both the importance and impossibility of racial purity. King-O’Riain examines racial eligibility rules and tests, which encompass not only ancestry but also residency, community service, and culture, and traces the history of pageants throughout the United States. Pure Beauty shows how racial and gendered meanings are enacted through the pageants, and reveals their impact on Japanese American men, women, and children. King-O’Riain concludes that the mixed-race challenge to racial understandings of Japanese Americanness does not necessarily mean an end to race as we know it and asserts that race is work—created and re-created in a social context. Ultimately, she determines that the concept of race, fragile though it may be, is still one of the categories by which Japanese Americans are judged.

Beauty Shop Tales

Beauty Shop Tales Avril Carson had to try. Because the hairdresser-turned-actress (turned hairdresser) had left little Sago Beach, Florida, with her whole life in front of her and the man she'd loved by her side. Now she'd come back, with his ashes in an urn, and not even the chance of a child in her future. But she had a sneaking suspicion there was one in her late husband's not too-distant past... And as for romance -- well, those days were behind her. Or were they? For Max Wright was pursuing her with a vengeance that made her feel things she thought she'd never feel again. Maybe it was time to practice some beauty shop magic on herself...

Opportunities in Beauty and Modeling Careers

Opportunities in Beauty and Modeling Careers The most comprehensive career book series available, Opportunities in . . . explores a vast range of professions.Each book offers:The latest information on a field of interest Training and education requirements for each career Salary statistics for different positions within each field Up-to-date professional and Internet resources And much more